Table of contents - Special Issue: Digital libraries and the semantic web: context, applications and research
Guest Editors: George Macgregor
Introduction to a special issue on digital libraries and the semantic web: context, applications and research
George MacgregorThe purpose of this article is to introduce the papers in the special issue which explores some of the potential, opportunities and challenges to be found in greater library and…
The practitioner librarian and the semantic web: ANTAEUS
Nicholas JointPurpose –To describe and evoke the potential impact of semantic web systems at the level of library practice. Design/methodology/approach – A general outline of some of the broad…
Integrated access to cultural heritage resources through representation and alignment of controlled vocabularies
Antoine Isaac, Stefan Schlobach, Henk Matthezing, Claus ZinnTo show how semantic web techniques can help address semantic interoperability issues in the broad cultural heritage domain, allowing users an integrated and seamless access to…
The AGROVOC Concept Server: rationale, goals and usage
Margherita Sini, Boris Lauser, Gauri Salokhe, Johannes Keizer, Stephen KatzThe main objective of the AGROVOC Concept Server (CS) is to create a collaborative reference platform and a “one‐stop” shop for a pool of commonly used concepts related to…
Reducing semantic complexity in distributed digital libraries: Treatment of term vagueness and document re‐ranking
Philipp Mayr, Peter Mutschke, Vivien PetrasThe general science portal “vascoda” merges structured, high‐quality information collections from more than 40 providers on the basis of search engine technology (FAST) and a…
Faceted infrastructure for semantic digital libraries
A.R.D. Prasad, Devika P. MadalliThe paper aims to argue that digital library retrieval should be based on semantic representations and propose a semantic infrastructure for digital libraries.
Semantic heterogeneity: comparing new semantic web approaches with those of digital libraries
Jürgen KrauseTo demonstrate that newer developments in the semantic web community, particularly those based on ontologies (simple knowledge organization system and others) mitigate common…